Labour Market Integration, Decent Work and Sustainable Working Life
Here you'll find a summary of the course.
Information
Course leaders: Maja Cederberg and Andrea Spehar
Duration: TBC
Location: Online and University of Gothenburg
Language: English
Study pace: 100%
Course Description
This course will address labour market patterns in the global south and north, in Europe and in Sweden, including patterns of labour market attainment and working conditions for migrant workers. Various ways in which employment relates to migration, integration, sustainable working life, health outcomes, return and remittance-sending will be addressed. The idea of ‘decent work’ is central to international labour migration. Employment in destination countries is often characterised by informality, poor working conditions and low wages. Migrants in search of better work and wages often find themselves battling for jobs on the lowest rungs of the labour market. Equally important, labour migration and labour migrants are often implicated in effecting the working conditions, terms and wages in the broader labour market in their destination countries. The course will explore various forms of work-related rights violations and the precarisation of labour as well as specific challenges and opportunities, including the gender dimension of access to decent work and self-reliance. Students will also gain an insight into migrant agency and the challenges and opportunities that migrants face on the institutional and organizational levels, and reasons behind failures or success in finding meaningful employment.
Course Lecturers
TBA
How to Apply
This course is not yet open for applications.
Contact
For further information contact the course leaders: Maja Cederberg and Andrea Spehar
About the Graduate School in Migration and Integration
- Our Graduate School courses are offered to PhD students.
- 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University or at SOCAV & CGM, University of Gothenburg.
- All courses are taught in English.
- Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
- Accommodation is provided for free to all PhD students who are admitted to our courses.
